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Black Mountain College Bulletin
Volume V Number 4 May 1947
NEWS FROM THE FARM
The farm looks well.
It was fun to see it change' with three seasons. It was a relief iIi the fall when
the different greens of winter wh~ at, rye and barley cover crops replacing the
tired silage corn and soybean stubble.
During the winter the main cropping was compost; a whole village street of
rectangular piles which grew and were turned over and over and each time
examined ( for rate of decay) with almost morbid solemnity.
There is a milking machine, the cow stalls in the big barn have been floored
with cement, there are individual drinking cups for the cows, the disk harrows
have been brilliantly painted, the wheelbarrow is bright blue. Also the beef
herd has decreased ( we ate a good many) and the dairy herd enlarged. It was
planned that way. The community needs more milk. So the size of the beef
breeding herd has been cut down to enable the farm to support more milk
cows. Junket, an itinerant Guernsey heifer, upset the plans somewhat by
having a black beefy calf.
This spring the gully near the Jalowetz cottage has been cleared for a calf
pasture. The dairy and beef cattle have had nearly three months of grazing on
selected, newly fenced, strips of cover crop which not only pleases the cows,
but it also looks well.
Now the potatoes are planted, silage corn, oats and landino clover. There are
cabbages and onions well along above Black Dwarf, lettuce, radishes and
( bewilderingly enough) cactus and lilies too, are in the Albers' garden, and
in front of the gradually growing farmhouse beans and sweet corn. Bennett's
land, eight acres which we rent, is in spring oats; and lespedeza in Morris's
land, 12 acres up the valley, there are oats and barley, clover and lespedeza.
Forty- five hundred small trees have been planted on the eroded and steep
parts of the mountain pasture; locusts, balsam, white pine: reforestation.
There is a big unloading fork in the barn, three Guernsey calves rapidly grow­ing,
health records and tests, and more which isn't seen so clearly.
Clifford Moles and Raymond Trayer have planned it all, directed it, and done
it with student help, hard, work, and excitement. They practically iron the
fields after planting to insure order. They are a mechanized pair and pretty
gay with their tractor. Perhaps it is all right for the time being that they
have to use the horses to help too.
Mary Gregory
IN AND OUT
Josef Albc; rs' most recent paintings were exhibited during April at the Egan
Gallery in New York.
In an exhibition entitled The White Plane held at the Pinacotheca in New
York March 19 - April 12, paintings by Ilya Bolotowsky and Josef Albers
were included with the work of ; Arp, Bucheister, Diller, Gabo, Kandinsky,
Klee, Leger, Lissitsky, Mondrian, Schwitters and several other well known
artists.

Black Mountain College Bulletin
Volume V Number 4 May 1947
NEWS FROM THE FARM
The farm looks well.
It was fun to see it change' with three seasons. It was a relief iIi the fall when
the different greens of winter wh~ at, rye and barley cover crops replacing the
tired silage corn and soybean stubble.
During the winter the main cropping was compost; a whole village street of
rectangular piles which grew and were turned over and over and each time
examined ( for rate of decay) with almost morbid solemnity.
There is a milking machine, the cow stalls in the big barn have been floored
with cement, there are individual drinking cups for the cows, the disk harrows
have been brilliantly painted, the wheelbarrow is bright blue. Also the beef
herd has decreased ( we ate a good many) and the dairy herd enlarged. It was
planned that way. The community needs more milk. So the size of the beef
breeding herd has been cut down to enable the farm to support more milk
cows. Junket, an itinerant Guernsey heifer, upset the plans somewhat by
having a black beefy calf.
This spring the gully near the Jalowetz cottage has been cleared for a calf
pasture. The dairy and beef cattle have had nearly three months of grazing on
selected, newly fenced, strips of cover crop which not only pleases the cows,
but it also looks well.
Now the potatoes are planted, silage corn, oats and landino clover. There are
cabbages and onions well along above Black Dwarf, lettuce, radishes and
( bewilderingly enough) cactus and lilies too, are in the Albers' garden, and
in front of the gradually growing farmhouse beans and sweet corn. Bennett's
land, eight acres which we rent, is in spring oats; and lespedeza in Morris's
land, 12 acres up the valley, there are oats and barley, clover and lespedeza.
Forty- five hundred small trees have been planted on the eroded and steep
parts of the mountain pasture; locusts, balsam, white pine: reforestation.
There is a big unloading fork in the barn, three Guernsey calves rapidly grow­ing,
health records and tests, and more which isn't seen so clearly.
Clifford Moles and Raymond Trayer have planned it all, directed it, and done
it with student help, hard, work, and excitement. They practically iron the
fields after planting to insure order. They are a mechanized pair and pretty
gay with their tractor. Perhaps it is all right for the time being that they
have to use the horses to help too.
Mary Gregory
IN AND OUT
Josef Albc; rs' most recent paintings were exhibited during April at the Egan
Gallery in New York.
In an exhibition entitled The White Plane held at the Pinacotheca in New
York March 19 - April 12, paintings by Ilya Bolotowsky and Josef Albers
were included with the work of ; Arp, Bucheister, Diller, Gabo, Kandinsky,
Klee, Leger, Lissitsky, Mondrian, Schwitters and several other well known
artists.
Moholy- Nagy's latest gouaches, sept by him to BMC just before his death; a.
large group of moclern etchings by William Hayter and his best students,
assembled especially for BMC t y Alice T. Mason; fourteen pen and inks by
Ben Zion and four gouaches by Maurer; twenty gouache abstractions by
George McNeil.
Two student shows were also held:
A group show of seventy- one oils, water colors, and gouaches; the first
semester work of twenty- five art students, many of them complete beginners;
a group show of over sixty line drawings, the second semester work of twenty
students in the drawing class.
At the Allen High School in Asheville on April 28th a concert of Mozart
music was performed by Charlotte Schlesinger, Gretel Lowinsky, JuJius ~ cheir,
Florence Fogelson, and Fanny Hobart.
Students who have contributed music to the Sunday morning services of the
Moore General Hospital's chapel include Lucy Swift, Fanny Hobart, Louis
Selders, and Dorothy Cole.
On May 17th a sizeable audience from Asheville and Black Mountain helped
celebrate the revival of dramatics in the College when there one act plays
were produced by a group of students under Arthur Penn's di'rection.
The May 1st issue of Heute ( American Occupation Authority's bi- monthly
publication in Munich, Germany) earrieda two page spread of pictures and
an article about BMC. This was due to John Evarts' persistence on both sides
of the Atlantic.
Theodore Dreier and Albert WiHiam Levi left May 25th fQr two weeks in
New York and Boston where they will try to raise money. Lorna Blaine ( 101
East 85th Street., New York City) is acting as their secretary and will welcome
news, names, and addresses of any prospective donors. .
NEWS OF FORMER TEACHERS AND STUDENTS
Jack French is now on the staff' at M. LT. working with the research center
for group dynamics. He and Sophie will move their family to LincolFl, Mass.,
June 1st.
Nat French, assistant headmaster of the North Shore County Day School in
Winnetka, Illinois, will make his annual flight to Bucksport, Maine, where
he and Peg will be counsellors at Alamoosook Island Camp. The household,
besides three boys, now includes Alison, a gay redhead, six months old. Rudy
Haase will also be a counselor ~ t Alamoosook this s~ mmer.
Bob and A. A. Babcock have a new daughter, JulIe, born January 15th in
Burlington, Vermont, RFD No. 1.
Roland Boyden has completed his thesis ( A History of Corporations) for a
Ph. D. at Harvard. He and Cynthia have been in Cambridge, Mass., this year;
but will move shortly with their daughter, Jennifer, to Tamworth, N. H., for
the summer.
Nell Rice's granddaughter, Nell Aydelotte Marshall, was born May 10th in
Arlington, Virginia. Her pareJts are Roger and Mary Rice Marshall.
Fernando and Ellie Smith Leo have a son born May 17th in New York City.
Their address is 417 East 84tH Street.
Dick and Anna Lockwood's d~ ughter, Helen Montgomery, arrived April 19th.
The Lockwoods live at 560 West 52nd Street, New York City.
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At the American Economic Association meeting at Atlantic City, N. ]., in
February, Karl Niebyl contributed a paper on The Rights of the Holder to a
panel on the Changing Function of Money. This was read by his wife,
Elizabeth, when Karl was suddenly called to Germany by the death of his
mother.
M. C . Richards' Writing class received and accepted an invitation from the
Oteen Veteran's Hospital to hold one of its regular meetings there. About
twenty- five of the patients, some of whom were experienced writers, partici­pated.
Edward Lowinsky read a paper on The Musical Life of a Flemish City in the
16th Century before the New York Chapter of the American Musicalogical
Society on February 15th. He has JUSt recently attended a three day conference
on art and music in Princeton, N. J., where he led a discussion group on
Music in the Renaissance.
Dr. Herbert A. Miller spoke in Philadelphia before the Ethical Culture Society
May 18th on " Problems qf the South." On May 5th he spoke to the Enka
Men's Club on " International Affairs." He gives a weekly report at each
meeting of the Black Mountain Lions Club on the work of the United Nations.
emy Jaeger and Stuart Atkinson, officers of the recently organized Bun­combe
County American Veterans Committee - 24 of whose 28 members
are Black Mountain College students - attended th~ convention held in
Atlanta April ._._ where Charles Bolte, National Chairman, spoke of the
growth and importance of the American Veterans Committee in the South.
The present aim of the local group is to organize an Asheville chapter to be
concerned with general community problems.
Elizabeth Gellhorn was the Black Mountain representative at a college forum
on Soviet- American Relations held in New York, April 26th, by Mademoiselle.
Thirty- seven colleges sent delegates to participate.
A group of teachers and students from the College have been regularly attend­ing
the meetings of the Asheville Chapter of the Southern Conference for
Human Welfare, a progressive group organized for the purpose of encourag ·
ing intelligent and effective citizenship. Most active have been the Niebyls,
the Dehns, the Scheirs, Peggy Brown, Ike Nakata, Jack Bailey, Luther
Jackson, Delores Fullman, and Alexa McLane. Several of these persons are
serving as officers and committee members in the local organization.
Ilya Bolotowsky arranged to have several programs of Experimental, Avant­Guard,
and Non- objective films shown at . the College. Some of these c~ me
from the Museum of Modern Art: " Fall of the House of Usher," " Ballet
Mechanique," " Rain," " Anaemic Cinema," and " Potemkin." Some came
through the courtesy of the Museum of Non- objective Art and the Baroness
Rebay: black and white non · objective films and a non- objective technicolor
film.
Among the visiting shows also arranged by Ilya Bolotowsky have been the
following:
An exhibition of eighty photographs of paintings and sculpture by the
members of the American Abstract Artists; twenty microfilm color prints of
chemical crystals, by Captain Dudley Lee of Alexandria, Virginia; a large
group of color reproductions of modern and old masters through the courtesy
of Dr. Prothmann, Baldwin, Long Island, New York; American Abstract
Artists show of gouaches. Some fifty paintings were shown including two of
Maud Dabbs and Robert Haas were married last summer and now are in
New YorkCity, 114 East 57th Street, where Robert runs the Ram 1-' ress. he
showed his interest in the tiMC bulletin recently by sending the pnntshop a
font of Futura type and some paper tor printing purposes.
Jane Slater married Lucian Marquis in February. Their address is 412 Quail
Drive, Los Angeles 31, California.
Jacqueline Tankersley and Louls Woodward Matthey were married March
1st m Webster Groves, Missouri.
Chuck Forberg is completing his work at Harvard's Graduate School of
Design in June. His final project is a co- operative tarm on a 1200 acre SHe
in ::' outhern Minnesota. he nas had a part- time jOb tillS Wlnter m me
architectural office of Hugh Stubbins in Cambridge.
Other Black Mountain students studying architecture at Harvard this year
have been Alex Reed, Don 1' age, and \.- laude " toiler.
Widget Bauer's weaving was exhibited during April at the Ten Thirty Gallery
in Cleveland, Uhio.
Hope Stephens Foote's daughter, Heather, was born March' 9th.
Faith Hartwig is now Mrs. Donald Left and lives at Stanford- in- the- Catskills,
New York.
Roxane Dinkewitz will marry Dr. George Goldstein in June.
Hampton Duxbury lives at 128 School Street, New Bedford, Mass., and is
workmg as aSSlstant purcnasmg agent ror a texule mill in that CHy.
Lynn Hatcher is now Mrs. Floyd M. Bales of 2418 Arlington Avenue, Los
Angeles, California.
Laurie Matdin sold her ceramics successfully to Sweden House and America
House in New York, where She was also instructor in ceramics at the Univer­sal
Handicrafts School. Since February she has been working in Taos ( General
Delivery, Taos, New Mexico). Right now she is at home in Cleveland,
recuperating from an accident, but she plans to return to Taos. Sylvia Rosen­feld
is also in Taos.
Bill McLaughlin is a psychiatric aide in the Institute of Living, Hartford,
Conn. He hopes to continue his study of history for an advanced degree when
he has saved enough hard cash. His address is Box 108, 160 Retreat Avenue.
Jean Maurice has just returned from POrt au Prince, Haiti, where she assisted
in art classes at the Centre d'Art and taught English at the American Institute.
She will spend the summer in New York and return to BMC in the fall.
Black Mountain College Bulletin Volume V Number 4
May, 1947.
Issued five times a year, ill February, March, April, May, and
November. Entered as second- class matter November 4, 1942,
at the Postoffice at Black Mountain, North Carolina, under the
Act of August 24, 1912.

Black Mountain College Bulletin
Volume V Number 4 May 1947
NEWS FROM THE FARM
The farm looks well.
It was fun to see it change' with three seasons. It was a relief iIi the fall when
the different greens of winter wh~ at, rye and barley cover crops replacing the
tired silage corn and soybean stubble.
During the winter the main cropping was compost; a whole village street of
rectangular piles which grew and were turned over and over and each time
examined ( for rate of decay) with almost morbid solemnity.
There is a milking machine, the cow stalls in the big barn have been floored
with cement, there are individual drinking cups for the cows, the disk harrows
have been brilliantly painted, the wheelbarrow is bright blue. Also the beef
herd has decreased ( we ate a good many) and the dairy herd enlarged. It was
planned that way. The community needs more milk. So the size of the beef
breeding herd has been cut down to enable the farm to support more milk
cows. Junket, an itinerant Guernsey heifer, upset the plans somewhat by
having a black beefy calf.
This spring the gully near the Jalowetz cottage has been cleared for a calf
pasture. The dairy and beef cattle have had nearly three months of grazing on
selected, newly fenced, strips of cover crop which not only pleases the cows,
but it also looks well.
Now the potatoes are planted, silage corn, oats and landino clover. There are
cabbages and onions well along above Black Dwarf, lettuce, radishes and
( bewilderingly enough) cactus and lilies too, are in the Albers' garden, and
in front of the gradually growing farmhouse beans and sweet corn. Bennett's
land, eight acres which we rent, is in spring oats; and lespedeza in Morris's
land, 12 acres up the valley, there are oats and barley, clover and lespedeza.
Forty- five hundred small trees have been planted on the eroded and steep
parts of the mountain pasture; locusts, balsam, white pine: reforestation.
There is a big unloading fork in the barn, three Guernsey calves rapidly grow­ing,
health records and tests, and more which isn't seen so clearly.
Clifford Moles and Raymond Trayer have planned it all, directed it, and done
it with student help, hard, work, and excitement. They practically iron the
fields after planting to insure order. They are a mechanized pair and pretty
gay with their tractor. Perhaps it is all right for the time being that they
have to use the horses to help too.
Mary Gregory
IN AND OUT
Josef Albc; rs' most recent paintings were exhibited during April at the Egan
Gallery in New York.
In an exhibition entitled The White Plane held at the Pinacotheca in New
York March 19 - April 12, paintings by Ilya Bolotowsky and Josef Albers
were included with the work of ; Arp, Bucheister, Diller, Gabo, Kandinsky,
Klee, Leger, Lissitsky, Mondrian, Schwitters and several other well known
artists.